The Rada formed an advisory expert group to pre-select candidates for members of the Accounting Chamber

Three experts joined the group.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted draft resolution No. 16095 “On the formation of an advisory group of experts to conduct a preliminary selection of candidates for the positions of members of the Accounting Chamber.” The document was supported by 263 members of parliament.

By way of a rating vote, the advisory group was chosen:

Mykola Viktorovych Marchenko — a candidate from the Verkhovna Rada budget committee, 265 votes “for”;

Hlib Viktorovych Vyshlynskyi — a candidate from the Holos faction, 204 votes “for”;

Myroslava Ihorivna Maslyak — a candidate from the “For the Future” group, 202 votes “for”.

Members of the advisory group are to conduct a preliminary screening of candidates for the positions of members of the Accounting Chamber for participation in the competition. In addition to the elected members, candidates also included Andriy Vyktorovych Zhupanin, Tetyana Oleksandrivna Kamenska, and Nataliya Ivanivna Pashuk. However, according to the results of the rating vote, they received the smallest number of votes.

The Accounting Chamber of Ukraine is a permanently functioning state body that, on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada, carries out external financial control over the inflow of funds to the state budget and their use.

In June, the Verkhovna Rada amended its Rules of Procedure, allowing the combining of competitions for positions of members of the Accounting Chamber if they are conducted simultaneously. Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) believes this decision will help overcome the prolonged leadership crisis in the supreme body of state financial control.

The Accounting Chamber is an organ that should monitor every hryvnia of the state budget; instead, it has become a zone of unaccountability. Almost two years of personnel crisis, a competition that the parliament has been unable to launch for a year, and in April — another resignation announcement.

Will this departure become the same push that the reform of the Accounting Chamber has long awaited? The TI Ukraine expert Andrew Shvadtchak analyzes this in the article “Staff Collapse in the Accounting Chamber. Deepening Crisis or a Chance for a Restart?”